MOLDRAW reads structure input files in its own file format. The files have
.MOL extension and are in free format. Beware of the fact that other molecular
graphics programs adopt the same file extension: the internal format is,
however, completely different.
All the input information contained in the MOL files are in
free format and case insensitive. Spaces or TAB may be
used as separators of different fields in the
same record. Different records are separated by carriage
return. Any name for the file is allowed, as long as it is compatible with the
Windows syntax, completed with the MOL extension.
Each time MOLDRAW reads a .MOL file in a given directory a new temporary
TMP_P directory is created as a child of the parent directory. All files
generated by the various operations performed by MOLDRAW will be stored there.
If, for instance, the FILENAME.MOL file is read by MOLDRAW a corresponding one
called FILENAME.TXT containing results relative to geometrical and non-bonded
energy calculations is created under the TMP_P directory. Please consider that
the TMP_P directory is not deleted at the end of a MOLDRAW session.
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